US lawmakers demand AI regulation
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U.S. politicians from across the ideological spectrum expressed fears that artificial intelligence could pose existential and regulatory risks, uniting unlikely allies and prompting calls for stricter oversight.
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing everyone. It would be fair to say that AI has now gone mainstream, and not only that, it has become a hot political subject.
www.technollama.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
It has been a fascinating week in the world of artificial intelligence. The subject has broken containment, and it seems like everyone is talking about it. I was listening to a football podcast and the hosts started talking about AI killing…
by Ryan Calo Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
September 16, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Banning "superintelligent" 🤢 AI plays right into industry rhetoric and keeps the focus off immediate, real world harms such as privacy, bias, and labor. Literally the same name of the silly Bostrom book everyone was reading 12 years ago.
Reposted by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Andrés Guadamuz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
September 17, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I'm back, I missed you all.
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that
AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult.
I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?)
(alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)
by Naomi Klein Reposted by Devon Greyson
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
September 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
On Democracy Now!, I floated a new theory: AI companies really have unleashed a killer monster that has slipped their control. But plot twist - the monster is human. And it's the President of the United States.
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
@astra.bsky.social
@democracynow.org
Reposted by Scott A. Imberman, Steven H. Seggie
One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...
September 17, 2026 at 9:24 AM
One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...
by Juan Moreno‐Cruz Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol
“The greatest danger is not that humans will not be needed, but that we create an environment where humans don’t need each other.”
"Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals." Hannah Arendt
If AI wreaks havoc, however unlikely, it will be through this channel.
"Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals." Hannah Arendt
If AI wreaks havoc, however unlikely, it will be through this channel.
September 17, 2026 at 10:50 AM
“The greatest danger is not that humans will not be needed, but that we create an environment where humans don’t need each other.”
"Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals." Hannah Arendt
If AI wreaks havoc, however unlikely, it will be through this channel.
"Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals." Hannah Arendt
If AI wreaks havoc, however unlikely, it will be through this channel.
by Ryan Calo Reposted by Greg Linden
My computer and information science colleagues and I on supposed existential risks of AI. www.washington.edu/news/2026/09...
Q&A: UW researchers respond to recent concerns over AI risk | UW News
Recent news about AI safety is fueling a new wave of political and societal fear. Five UW AI researchers discuss the real risks of AI and what to do about them.
www.washington.edu
September 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
My computer and information science colleagues and I on supposed existential risks of AI. www.washington.edu/news/2026/09...
by David G. Rand Reposted by Gordon Pennycook
🚨New WP: Protecting users from AI persuasion🚨
🔸A 1-paragraph AI literacy treatment (explaining AIs can be told to pursue non-accuracy goals/to persuade) cuts AI dialogue political persuasion by ~half!
🔸No sig effect on general genAI trust
arxiv.org/abs/2609.16432
w/ @rorchinik.bsky.social
🔸A 1-paragraph AI literacy treatment (explaining AIs can be told to pursue non-accuracy goals/to persuade) cuts AI dialogue political persuasion by ~half!
🔸No sig effect on general genAI trust
arxiv.org/abs/2609.16432
w/ @rorchinik.bsky.social
September 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
🚨New WP: Protecting users from AI persuasion🚨
🔸A 1-paragraph AI literacy treatment (explaining AIs can be told to pursue non-accuracy goals/to persuade) cuts AI dialogue political persuasion by ~half!
🔸No sig effect on general genAI trust
arxiv.org/abs/2609.16432
w/ @rorchinik.bsky.social
🔸A 1-paragraph AI literacy treatment (explaining AIs can be told to pursue non-accuracy goals/to persuade) cuts AI dialogue political persuasion by ~half!
🔸No sig effect on general genAI trust
arxiv.org/abs/2609.16432
w/ @rorchinik.bsky.social
by Grady Booch
I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering.
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
The End of Software Engineering:How AI Agents Are Fundamentally Restructuring the Software Paradigm
arxiv.org
September 17, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I have read many well researched, well reasoned, and well argued papers regarding the nature of software engineering.
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
This is not one of them.
arxiv.org/html/2606.05...
As warnings mount, Democrats eyeing the presidency wake up to AI fears www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
As warnings mount, Democrats eyeing the presidency wake up to AI fears
Their plans are heavier on rhetoric than specifics so far. But it’s a shift for many in the party who have been slow to address the fast-changing technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:26 AM
As warnings mount, Democrats eyeing the presidency wake up to AI fears www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
by Elizabeth Warren Reposted by Rebecca Solnit
Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
September 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Today, I'm calling to immediately press pause on the development of advanced AI while lawmakers and regulators put systems in place to keep people safe.
by Jessica Silbey Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog
With @hartzog.bsky.social a short version of "How AI Destroys Institutions" www.accountableaiforum.com/p/this-is-ho...
This is How AI Destroys Institutions
Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey
www.accountableaiforum.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
With @hartzog.bsky.social a short version of "How AI Destroys Institutions" www.accountableaiforum.com/p/this-is-ho...
by Michael Zimmer Reposted by Tama Leaver
Again, AI companies can slow down without waiting for regulation. Releasing models without adequate safeguards is a choice, not an inevitability.
“Someone should make us stop” is a strange position for the people with their foot on the gas.
“Someone should make us stop” is a strange position for the people with their foot on the gas.
They could just… not do it. Or turn it off. Deploying AI tools in uncontrolled ways is a choice. The risks tech companies keep struggling to “manage” are risks they choose to create.
Why It’s Tough for Tech Companies to Keep A.I. Out of Trouble www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
Why It’s Tough for Tech Companies to Keep A.I. Out of Trouble www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.
Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Again, AI companies can slow down without waiting for regulation. Releasing models without adequate safeguards is a choice, not an inevitability.
“Someone should make us stop” is a strange position for the people with their foot on the gas.
“Someone should make us stop” is a strange position for the people with their foot on the gas.
by Jack Stilgoe
Not being snarky or nothing, but the US government has been building Frankensteins for decades, by incentivising irresponsible innovators.
‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Not being snarky or nothing, but the US government has been building Frankensteins for decades, by incentivising irresponsible innovators.
Here is an example of how AI cannot be used to determine cause and effect.
Suppose you want to know the impact of CO2 on climate. With a physics model, you run two simulations, one with the current atmosphere and a second with the current atmosphere but without CO2.
Suppose you want to know the impact of CO2 on climate. With a physics model, you run two simulations, one with the current atmosphere and a second with the current atmosphere but without CO2.
September 17, 2026 at 6:54 AM
Here is an example of how AI cannot be used to determine cause and effect.
Suppose you want to know the impact of CO2 on climate. With a physics model, you run two simulations, one with the current atmosphere and a second with the current atmosphere but without CO2.
Suppose you want to know the impact of CO2 on climate. With a physics model, you run two simulations, one with the current atmosphere and a second with the current atmosphere but without CO2.
by Seth Masket
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
September 16, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I wrote the other day about AI becoming a populist issue that transcended party lines, not realizing Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon were about to share a stage on this topic!
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
smotus.substack.com/p/ai-as-the-...
by Jack Stilgoe
Brilliant piece. But AI Safety not really ‘fringe’. It’s in the mainstream of a group who happened to become wildly powerful. This paper is useful firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Field-building and the epistemic culture of AI safety
| First Monday
firstmonday.org
September 17, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Brilliant piece. But AI Safety not really ‘fringe’. It’s in the mainstream of a group who happened to become wildly powerful. This paper is useful firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Poll: Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools
Last year, a slim majority thought schools that integrated AI would be better for students. Now a majority say schools that ban AI are better, according to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll.
www.nbcnews.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Most Americans think AI is doing more harm than good in schools www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
this piece highlights three key points:
(1) trump admin actively opposes AI safety reg;
(2) zuck & others essentially say trust-but-don't-verify;
(3) the industry is in disarray in the face of public hatred of them/their opacity/their clear self-interest/their public disavowal of responsibility.
(1) trump admin actively opposes AI safety reg;
(2) zuck & others essentially say trust-but-don't-verify;
(3) the industry is in disarray in the face of public hatred of them/their opacity/their clear self-interest/their public disavowal of responsibility.
‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
US vice-president’s comments come as former Anthropic researcher revisits recent claim AI could destroy humanity
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
this piece highlights three key points:
(1) trump admin actively opposes AI safety reg;
(2) zuck & others essentially say trust-but-don't-verify;
(3) the industry is in disarray in the face of public hatred of them/their opacity/their clear self-interest/their public disavowal of responsibility.
(1) trump admin actively opposes AI safety reg;
(2) zuck & others essentially say trust-but-don't-verify;
(3) the industry is in disarray in the face of public hatred of them/their opacity/their clear self-interest/their public disavowal of responsibility.
Having just come off BBC Radio Scotland, sending good thoughts to all my fellow AI researchers also drowning in media requests this week and trying to fight a multibillion-dollar gilded firehose of bullshit with spray bottles of reason and facts
September 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Having just come off BBC Radio Scotland, sending good thoughts to all my fellow AI researchers also drowning in media requests this week and trying to fight a multibillion-dollar gilded firehose of bullshit with spray bottles of reason and facts